To Christians: Why do you think we Muslims hate Jesus?

Question

We see Jesus as a great prophet, wise, a true follower of God.
He said and teached great things to people, we muslims accept what he said. Still, we don't think he is the son of God, because God is to great.

We don't hate him. In fact I can remember seeing a Otoman drawing showing Jesus and Mohammed as friends, chating.

Osama is a ***** bastard. He gives Islam a bad name.

Christians and Jews are not infidels. We worship the SAME God. Under different revelations.

Answer 1

I love you Muslims :) I don't think you hate Jesus, nor your religion hates Jesus. We need to get beyond what our "religion" believes and let our individual actions speak for ourselves. I don't like being stereotyped with Christians, though I am one, I'm not part of the religion, I have a relationship with my Father. Honestly, I love the idea of the drawing, Jesus and Mahomammed just "hangin' out"...why can't we be like that? I want a picture of unity in our world, without seperation of religions, races, gender, or any other stupid excuse.

Answer 2

If Muslims believed Jesus' words, then they would accept that He is not only the Son of God, but God Incarnate. Why do I say this? Because He said it. You will likely tell me that the Bible has been corrupted, but that is also false.

1) Jesus claimed to be God. He used God's name for Himself, and was nearly stoned for it. "Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I tell you, before there was an Abraham, I am!" (John 8:58) When Moses spoke to God, he asked Him, "What is your name?" And God replied "I am that I am. Tell Israel that I am has sent you." (Exodus 3:14)

Jesus also used that name for Himself several other places: Matthew 14:27, Mark 6:50, Mark 13:6, Luke 21:8, John 4:26, John 6:20, John 8:24, 28, 58, and John 13:19. There are several others I have not listed. (Please note that the English translations will not show this literally, it only shows up this way in the original Greek. Many English translations will say "I am He," or "It is I," to make it flow in the vernacular.)

2) The Bible is not corrupted. When the translators of the King James Bible wrote the Old Testament, the oldest available manuscript for them to use, was known as the Masoretic Text. This had been written in the 9th century A.D. It was this text that the translators based their work on the Old Testament. In 1947, a shepherd boy discovered some pottery in caves in the area called Qumran, near the Dead Sea. In these jars, he discovered scrolls, which archaeologists and Bible scholars have researched ever since. Every book of the Old Testament (except Esther) was discovered. Most of these scrolls are dated to 150 B.C. After comparing these Dead Sea Scrolls to the Masoretic Text, the scholars discovered an amazing degree of unanimity between the two, although they were written a thousand years apart. Further, the Septuagint (the Greek language translation of the Hebrew Bible) was also compared. With all of these references, there is plenty of evidence that no biblical doctrine has been tampered with.

As far as the New Testament goes, there is no larger ancient body of manuscript evidence in the history of mankind, than the papyri and parchment manuscripts of the New Testament. With over five thousand actual Greek manuscripts, and numerous other manuscripts in four other languages, there are about twenty-four thousand available manuscript texts for the New Testament.

Even if we didn't have these documents, we could almost have a complete New Testament from extra-biblical sources, such as ancient lectionaries, church fathers' records/sermons/writings, etc. Therefore, no one can honestly claim that the Bible has been corrupted.

3) In Islam, the Qur'an states rather clearly, "Proclaim: Allah is One. Allah is Eternal. He neither begets nor was begotten." (Surah 112:1-4)

Either Islam is right, and Jesus is not God, nor begotten; or Christianity is right, and Jesus is God, and is begotten. We can't have it both ways. Islam will never hold to a belief that Jesus is God. And Christians will not accept that Jesus is not God, and is not begotten.

Answer 3

I don't believe that Muslims hate Jesus, I do believe they have a different doctrinal view on the nature of Jesus that is close to the Socianists, who did not believe that Jesus had a divine nature, and were considered heretics by the early Church.


Orthodox Christian belief holds that Jesus was the Son of God , a man both fully human and fully divine, who came to earth to pay the final price (scapegoat) for the sins of the human race. And, that it is faith in Jesus' sacrifice, not through our own efforts, that Christians obtain salvation. This differs drastically from the Muslim belief that each person is responsible for his or her own salvation, which can be achieved through one's individual efforts.


"We worship the SAME God."

Not so. Christians acknowledge Jesus Christ as God. Muslims recognize Allah as their God.

Answer 4

We don't believe you hate him. In fact, I have a good understand that you revere him as a prophet. The difference is that since we believe he is the Son of God, and fully human while still fully God, and we believe that the only way to have forgiveness of sins and life everlasting is through faith in Jesus. The bible states that the only way to the Father is through the Son. It makes no exceptions, and so therefore anyone that does not accept Jesus as the Son of God is still condemned and cannot stand forgiven. That applies equally to Jews, Buddhists, Muslims, Animists, Atheists, Naturalists, and everything in between.

Answer 5

I am a Christian and I definitely know that Muslims do not hate Jesus. But due to differences, it is clearly true to state that Muslims do not "respect" him in the same way as Christians do. But I also (being a protestant) do not really respect the Pope as much as Catholics would because he is irrelevant to my religious life. Yet I am a Christian who is tolerant.

I suspect that such differences as I have mentioned also exist not only within Islam but also within Sikhism, etc. We are all children of God and we should be friends. In fact I, having both Irish and Scots-irish blood, am outraged about the killing in Northern Ireland because I have ancestors (and probably living relatives, who knows?) that were part of the enmity there.

I think your recollection, sir, of the Ottoman drawing of Jesus and Mohammed talking sets the best example that could be set and says it all.

Answer 6

What are you speaking approximately! I do realize the historic Jesus. on a similar time as a Prophet, why no longer? the lack of comprehend with which some Jews pay to Jesus' reminiscence is as a results of Christians and not the Jews. The Jewish blood has been shed for the era of historic previous with the aid of Christians in the call of Jesus. for this reason, some Jews do no longer subject discovering that the historic Jesus on no account had something to do with the Christ of Paul.

Answer 7

How can a christian understand Muslims when they don't even understand their own religion?

Christians constantly have to be 'taught' what bible scripture means because they can't think for themselves (and the bible is such a mish-mash of mythology).
Whatever they're told, they blindly believe.

I believe Muslims are a much more peaceful people than christians. Christians consistently point fingers at others in judgement and hate anything that isn't 'just like them'.
They feel superior and become cocky in their religion and have little, if any, true humility in their lives. They go through the motions....give money to the church...say a few prayers and off they go judging others again, putting their noses into everyone else's bedrooms!

Sorry for my ranting, but they just drive me nuts sometimes.

What was the question again?
Oh....sorry....not a christian.

Answer 8

Because your Jesus and our Jesus are alike in name only. The Jesus who walked the Earth, that Jesus he wasn't just the son of God he was God himself. You can say that the New Testament documents have been tampered, but if you did a little research it's a hard claim for you to prove. Whether or not you think your Jesus is one of the greatest prophets of all time is immaterial. Jesus claimed to be God, and by saying he's not your essentially calling him a liar. And prophets who lied aren't great, they aren't true followers of God, they were to be stoned to death. So if you don't believe Jesus' claims about himself that's fine, follow Mohammed's religion, just stop dragging Jesus into it, and setting Him up in a role, that is dishonest to who he is.

Answer 9

I don't think that Muslims hate Jesus--Muslims revere him as a great prophet. Christians go one step farther and believe what he says about himself in the holy book-the Bible. He claimed to be God in the flesh--Muslims have a problem with that as do the Jews. Regardless of how individual Muslims, atheists, Buddhists, Jews or anybody else feels about Jesus--He loves you and gave His life to prove it to you

Answer 10

I don't think Muslims hate Jesus, I think Muslims see him differently then Christians do. There is nothing wrong with that, that is there belief and they have a right to that. Who is to say one religion is right and another is wrong..... the bottom line is the morality of their beliefs teachings, and that they belive in a God, he may go by many differnt names, but overal he is God. Its is sad that in this day and age people as still showing how petty and judgmental they are by frowning and degrating other religions, who gives them the right to do that, ultimatley, God will be the deciding factor on that, what ever his name is, its what he stands for that matters.